VANAGON archives -- June 1999, week 3 (#190)

Date:         Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:11:15 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <synergx@IBM.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <synergx@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: What's the correct torque here??
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At 23:43 6/16/99 -0400, Todd Hill wrote:
>  synergx@IBM.NET writes:
>
><< 14 lb. ft. does seem low for an 8mm, >>
>
>Don't know what the spec is for that there but on the transaxles
>the 13mm nuts w/1.25 pitch on the 8mm studs are generally
>22-25 lb. ft.
>
>Or I could be wrong.........;^)

Hi Todd -- you're right in line with Bentley.  The M8's going into steel
seem to run about 22 lb ft, going into aluminum 14 or 15 (depending how
they converted 20 Nm that day).

david
David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net

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